Ceniza negra
- Sofía Quirós Ubeda
- 2019
- France, Costa Rica, Chili, Argentine
- 81 min
- Films in Progress 35 / Toulouse 2019
Selva (13) discovers that death is just the shedding of our skin. We can become wolves, goats, shadows or anything that fantasy allows.
Sofía Quirós Ubeda
Sofía Quirós Ubeda was born in 1989. Her feature film debut Ceniza Negra was selected for Next Step (Torino Film Lab + Cannes Critic’s Week), 3 Puertos Cine, Lobo Lab and received support from the Ibermedia Program, World Cinema Fund, the Tribeca Latin American Fund, and the Aide aux Cinémas du Monde. Her last short film Selva was part of the competition of the 56th Semaine de la Critique. Since then, it has screened in festivals all over the world, including Biarritz (TV5 Prix) and Guanajuato (Women in Film and TV Award).
Filmography
2015 – Entre la Tierra – Fiction – 29 min.
2016 – Selva – Fiction – 17 min.
Production notes
Sputnik Films was founded in 2011. The Sound of Things premiered at the Main Competition of the 38th Moscow International Film Festival and received the Kommersant Weekend Prize. It was Costa Rica’s Official Submission for the 2018 Academy Awards. Land of Ashes, by newcomer Sofía Quirós, is currently in post-production. It is expected to premiere in 2019.
Support
XII International Producers’ Symposium FICCI (Colombia)
Project Presentation Forum CRFIC 2017 (Costa Rica)
El Fauno National Fund (Costa Rica)
Ibermedia Program (Development and Coproduction)
Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (France)
World Cinema Fund (Germany)
Tribeca Latin American Film Fund (USA)
Cinergia (Central America and Caribbean Region)
- Original title
- Ceniza negra
- Direction
- Sofía Quirós Ubeda (Premier film)
- Country
- France, Costa Rica, Chili, Argentine
- Année
- 2019
- Scenario
- Sofía Quirós Ubeda
- Picture
- Francisca Saéz Agurto
- Cutting
- Ariel Escalante Meza
- Music
- Wissam Hojeij
- Actors
- Smashleen Gutiérrez (Selva), Humberto Samuels (Ferguson), Hortensia Smith (Elena), Keha Brown (Winter)
- Original version
- Espagnol
- Production
- Sputnik Films
- Coproduction
- Promenades Films, Murillo Cine, La Post Producciones